Quote

I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.

Don Rickles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
Feel
Feels
Giving
Important
Obligation
Time
Fun
People
Everyone
Give
Hard

More quotes by Don Rickles

Image
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
Don Rickles
Image
When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Don Rickles
Image
If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
Don Rickles
Image
When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.
Don Rickles
Image
Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
Don Rickles
Image
I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.
Don Rickles
Image
Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.
Don Rickles
Image
My whole act is off the top of my head.
Don Rickles
Image
I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
Don Rickles
Image
Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
Don Rickles
Image
When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
Don Rickles
Image
Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.
Don Rickles
Image
Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
Don Rickles
Image
I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
Don Rickles
Image
I never went out looking for glory.
Don Rickles
Image
I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.
Don Rickles
Image
Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
Don Rickles
Image
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Don Rickles
Image
My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.
Don Rickles
Image
You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
Don Rickles